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S. K. WHITMORE 8: A. W. FEEL Y.

GAR COUPLING.

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SAMUEL K. W'HITMORE AND ALBERT W. FEELY, OF EDENBURG, PENNSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNORS 0F ONE-THIRD TO SAMUEL GIBBS, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,243, dated August 5, 1884.

Application filed May 121884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL K. XVHIT- nonn and ALBERT W. FEELY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Edenbn rg,in the county of Clarion and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improveinents in Oar-Couplings; and we do here i by declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to. make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in whichi 3 Figure l'is a perspective view of our improved car-coupling. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a bot tom view, and Fig. 4 is a front view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention has relation to car-couplings; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a coupling having means for guiding the coupling-link into the 2 opposite coupling, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying. drawings, the letter A indicates a draw-head of the usual construc-. tion, B indicates the couplingpin, and C indicates the link and the recess D in the drawhead has a recess, E, in its lower side at its mouth, into which a yoke or plate, F, fits, which is'secured upon the upper ends of two rods, G, sliding in vertical perforations H in the lower side of the draw-head. The lower ends of these vertically sliding rods are hinged to the outer bifurcated ends, I, of a lever, J, pivoted to rock in a vertical plane under the draw-head and the bottom of the, car, and bearing with its inner end against a spring, K, placed between the bottom of the car and the lever.

bearings under the bottom of thecar, and forms 7 a double crank, M, at its middle, bearing 4 5 against the inner end of the lever, and is pro- A transverseshaft, L, rocks in vided at its ends with handles or levers N, projecting forward to the end of the car at the sides of the same. The inner end of the bi furcated level-slides in aslotted vertical guideplate, which serves to keep the lever rocking 5( in a true vertical plane.

It will now be seen that the double crank and the handles upon the rock-shaft projecting forward in the same plane, the inner end ofthe bifurcated lever may be depressed, rais- 5 ing the plate or yoke in the draw-head by dopressing the outer ends of the handles, thus raising the link in the draw'head, enabling it to be inserted into a draw-head above its plane, and the spring under the bottom of the 6( car will serve to raise the inner end of the lever, and consequently lower its outer end and the yoke when the handles are released.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 63 of the United States- The combinatiomwitli a common draw-l1 cad, coupling-pin, and link, the said draw-head having a recess in its lower side near its mouth and two vertical perforations, of a yoke fit- 7r ting in the said recess, two vertical rods sliding in the perforations, a bifurcated lever piv oted to rock ina vertical plane under the car, and having the lower ends of the sliding rods hinged to its outer ends, a spring secured to 75 the inner end of the lever and to the bottom of the car, a guide-plate slotted for the receptionof the inner end of the lever, and a rockshaft formed with a double crank at its middle and with two handles at its ends, all con- 8t structed to operate as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto aiiixed our signa tures in presence of two witnesses.

' SAMUEL K. VVHITMORE. ALBERT W. FEELY.

\Vitnesses:

JNO.H. GRINYON, JAMES C. WEGKERLY. 

